What Casanova Can Teach Us
[Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to publish a note on this theme on the 14 th , but here it is, better late than never]. Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova, the man known to the world simply as "Casanova," was the proverbial lover, and a prolific writer who recorded his amorous adventures for later generations to read. Although he was not a man most honorable men would think of as a role model, there is one lesson we can learn from his life, and how he lived it. That lesson is simply this truth: every woman is lovely, and needs to be loved. This was the secret, we are told, of Casanova's amorous success. He treated each woman as if she were indeed, the loveliest woman in the world; for, for him, for the moment, she was. His error was not in viewing each woman as lovely, b...